Saturday, November 9, 2013

Green Carpet – Kuduremukha Trek : 9 & 10th November 2013

Not getting words how to describe
the view, entire valley is carpeted by green grass.Each one of the hill is looking like
decorated for wedding, awesome valley of Kuduremukha in the Monsoon. It was one
of the to-do lists for this year.Planned October last week, due to bad weather condition around the
region postponed to 2nd week of November.This trek was very special for me since 70%
new friends and the entire team was from different sector.This time the team leader is my good friend
Shanthi Prasad.We decided to stick 12
group members and booked the Tempo Traveler.After 3 members drop out the final team count was nine.

The itinerary is:

Bangalore – Balegal – Kuduremukha
[Night halt]

Kuduremukha – Balegal –
Hanumanagundi Falls – Sringeri - Bangalore

08.11.2013

Prasad sent the detailed
itinerary mail well in advance. The
common assembly point was Shanthala Silk House, Majestic. The entire team members were in-time and two were
boarded from Yeshwanthpura. Left the
majestic around 9.30 pm. The journey was comfortable since 3 seats were vacant.

09.11.2013

Reached the Balegal at 5.00
am. Already we have arranged the Forest
Entry permission, Local jeep travel, Stay at Satish Home, Kuduremukha.

We have to travel by Commander Jeep from
Balegal to Kuduremukha since normal vehicle is difficult to travel on the
mud/terrain road. Our guide was already
arranged the Jeeps and we boarded in two separate jeeps to Kuduremukha. The stretch is around 6km with challenging
drive. Only expert regular driver can
take this route. You can feel the beauty
of the Kuduremukha region from here itself.

The breakfast was ready and
finished our morning itinerary. Everyone
decided to have the bath after the trek.
We loaded our tummy with spontaneous Idly & Wada. The guide was ready; the entire team was
enthusiast to conquer Kuduremukha. Guide
informed about two paths, the one which directly goes to Kuduremukha [around 22
km from and to] and another one which takes you multiple mountain ranges [around
30+ km from and to] of Gomukha is one the popular peak.

The beauty of Kuduremukha trek trail,
ascend gradually take you to peak. The
entire valley in monsoon looks like a green carpet entire hills.

Taking many small big breaks reached the peak
by 4.00 pm. You can view 360 degree from
the top. The weather was wonderful and
spent good time over.

Now we started to descend the
hill, need to cover almost 13km beautiful stretch. The guide was pushing us hardly since it was
slowly getting dark. It is very
difficult to descend in the night. The
descend path was not so easy in few place.
The slippery path is more difficult in rain.

The sky was turning into the dark
clouds. Guide was pushing hard us again
and again. Descending path not taken
much breaks, however it become dark.
Started our torches and started the journey. With great difficulty we all reached the base
camp.

In the Kuduremukha range camping
is not allowed on peak, one has to come down.
The hot bhajji served with tea.
Something hot was required really, we all had unlimited bhajji’s. Got refreshed with hot water and settled in
front of camp fire. Dinner finished
around 9pm and settled in our sleeping bags.

10.11.2013

The morning was very chill and
got up as usual early. Shanthi Prasad
& Mallikarjun invited everyone to enjoy the nearby water falls. Nobody was dared dip in the cold water;
however both have enjoyed the falls. We
packed up our things and waiting for Jeep.
Few of us decided to go by walk enjoying the valley till Balegal. Finished the breakfast and left out enjoying
the path.

Later we joined to jeep nearby
Balegal. TT was ready to pick up,
boarded all and said good bye to Kuduremukha.

On the way we visited the
Hanumanagundi Falls. The crowd was much
in the falls. Spent couple of minutes
and headed to Sringeri.

Reached the Sringeri around 12.30
pm paid darshana to Sri Sharadambe. The
Prasad was ready and finished our lunch in the Prasad Nilaya.

The next target is to reach
Bangalore at the earliest. We all shared
our experience of the trek and watched two Kannada movies in the TT

Reached Bangalore safely by 9.30
pm and adieu to all to meet next another trek

Kuduremukha is the first place where I did not find a single wrapper of
Chocolate or any other human being litter.